Despite growing anti-survey rhetoric, partisanship does not explain the steep rise in Current Population Survey refusal rates over the past decade, from Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, and Darren Lubotsky nber.org/papers/w26433

Romney: "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry. I would quickly put it out of its misery."

Governor, Mr. President: I've heard rumors a place called "Europe" is having a currency crisis. Have you heard of it? Should we bomb them?

I know this thing is close, but Obama sure as hell looked like he is going to win, and Romney like he knows he will lose. #2012

Today's reminder that the Internet is a hilarious place: bit.ly/S1c0Lu

Hi, I'm Chris Cristie, and I would like to be your next president. #election2016

#Homeland's Damian Lewis wrote this to Obama: 'From one Muslim to another' | bit.ly/UDuySg

David Stern fining the Spurs is a joke. Since when do #NBA teams try to win every game? Teams rest stars and tank for the draft every year.

Is there a sports writer who is NOT contemptuous of David Stern? goo.gl/x2TWJ

Last week: teachers' unions are the enemy. This week: arm unionized teachers with semi-automatics to prevent gun violence. #thinking

Rupert Murdoch I wrote this a couple of weeks ago for your Business Spectator publication. Cheers! businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article…

Lebron has The Decision with Jim Gray. Looks like Lance will have The Confession with Oprah.

Retweet if you think the Splash Brothers and the rest of the Golden State Warriors force Game 7.

Also: I've never been more excited for a tweet than Kobe's next tweet.

#assa registration link from last year is live: conf.aeaweb.org

Welcome!

I'm back on Twitter after long hiatus...

My new IZA working paper: RD analysis shows winning close elections in the US increases lifespan by over 1 year. ftp.iza.org/dp10779.pdf

My job market paper was just accepted at AEJ:Applied! goo.gl/0OvuRh

apparently the Berkeley IRLE UC Berkeley has been on the millennials are snake people thing for a while irle.berkeley.edu/?s=cold+rocks